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Improving Information
Literacy:
TLT Group
External Evaluation of Project JSTOR: A Flashlight Case Study
Patricia
Derbyshire, Mount Royal College and
Stephen C. Ehrmann, Dir.,
The Flashlight Program
Project
JSTOR was a three-year grant initiative from 1999-2002,
supporting
35 public and private colleges and universities in Minnesota,
North Dakota and South Dakota. Its goals: strengthen digital library
use and scholarly research, particularly through the acquisition and
use of the JSTOR digital library
collection. Through the program, 20 colleges and universities
became participating JSTOR members, joining a network of 15 other
member institutions in the region. The Flashlight Program
conducted an external evaluation which included extensive interviews
and surveys of program participants.
Perhaps
the most significant finding was the power of Faculty-Librarian
Instructional Partnership (FLIP) grants. Small grants helped at
least one faculty member and a librarian at an institution to team
up and improve a course's ability to develop information literacy
among students. The grants seemed to help advance a new working
relationship between faculty and librarians, while triggering
substantial institutional increases in the use of the JSTOR
collection and other online resources.
Click
here for links to a fuller description of Project JSTOR and the full
text of the evaluation.
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